| Name | Salginatobel Bridge |
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| Who | |
| Owner | Schiers Commune, Graubunden Canton, Switzerland |
| Design | Robert Maillart |
| Contractor | Florian Prader & Cie, Zurich Scaffold: Richard Coray, Trin |
| Stays System | |
| Where | Schiers, Switzerland |
| Latitude | N 46 58' 54" |
| Longitude | E 09 43' 06" |
| Why | Takes road a deep ravine. |
| When | 1930 - repaired mid 1970s & 1998 |
| What | Read more..... |
| How to read the bridge | Read more..... |
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| What | |
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| Overall type | Open spandrel 3 pinned reinforced concrete arch. Robert Maillart was a pioneer of this form of elegant bridge. |
| Width | 3.5 m. |
| Length | 132.3 m. |
| Main span | 90.4 m. |
| Height above water | > 90 m. |
| Arch rise | 12.99 m. |
| Materials | Reinforced concrete |
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| How to read the bridge | Read more about the book metaphor..... Read more about modern arch bridges..... |
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| The chapters | 
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| The scaffolding 'hidden chapter' | Apparently it took only 6 men to build this scaffolding over one summer.
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| Grammar | Technically the bridge is a way of taking forces from up in the air down to the ground.
So imagine the flow of those forces through the structure.
Think of a man standing on the truss and how his weight was transmitted through the structure to the ground. Read here for more explanation of this form of bridge |
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